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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Rest In Peace Boring Wedding Formals that run too long.

These are some fun pictures from a recent wedding at Fauquier Springs Country Club with a great bridal party that put up with my insanity.

When Ines and I meet with couples we've discovered a frequent refrain is that the bride and groom have been in lots of bridal parties and hate the length of time that may be spent on formal pictures. Time that could be spent at the cocktail hour with friends, family, and a drink or two. The couple wants to know that we're not going to torture their bridal party, but still get great images. We promise to deliver, in fact even weddings that are running late are frequently back on track as we move quickly through formals that will still impress not just the bride and groom, but their parents as well.

Anyway, this is sort of my vision of what happens when the bridal party lapse into a coma from boring long slooow... formal sessions.

Let's have fun, remember that the wedding day is about your family and friends celebrating the day and still get those pictures unlike any you've ever seen.

Nine years ago, Don and his wife Ines opened The Edge Photography in Leesburg Virginia

Don and Ines have won countless international accolades of excellence for their portrait and wedding photography. They have also judged several photography competitions.

The Harpers live in historic Leesburg in a quaint house dating back to 1852.

Don’s love of photography dates back to grade school when he developed and printed his black and white prints in his own darkroom. He later graduated to color darkroom work and moved from a second-hand Kodak Brownie instamatic to an Agfa SLR.

Don was the team photographer for a number of National Speleological Society (NSS) Caving Expeditions lasting up to a week underground and presenting the most difficult challenges for a photographer. He also obtained his first Nikon camera and accumulated an extensive collection of lenses and lights for every photographic situation.

Later his photographic work expanded to scientific photography including ultra thin slicing of geological specimens for publication. Most notable was the publication of microscopic algae specimens that are approximately 2 billion years old. He also published early images of cardiac ultrasound images revealing the heart in a new modality. Don has photographed and produced a number of underwater presentations and also taught underwater photography and wreck diving to scuba divers.

Don says he has graduated from photography in the most difficult environments, to the most challenging subjects; Portraits of people and their pets

Ines Harper adds a unique feminine perspective and represents an important part of the creative energy you will find at The Edge Photography Studio. In her role as artistic director she coordinates backgrounds, costumes and lighting ideas to create a distinctive portrait for each client.

Ines has won awards for her album designs in two very competitive international competitions in both Las Vegas & London. Her creative skills really do transform a bride’s wedding album into the Edge work of art.

Ines’ Digital Darkroom skills rival those of any Fashion Magazine. Her subjects benefit from what she calls her painless, digital botox, and instant liposuction. These and other beauty-enhancing touch-ups lend a magical radiance to their photographs. Ines’s coffee table album designs are the best illustrations of editorial wedding photography available. There is great demand for her artistic photographic collages and painterly photographs in particular by seniors and pet owners who want a unique piece of art.

Her background in the arts can be traced to her family atelier that creates paintings sold in the best European art galleries and frequently featured on German television.